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Choral Arts: Bach's B-minor Mass (2nd review)
Bach and religion: What a combination!
A myriad of barriers confronts a successful performance of the B-minor Mass. On this occasion, the audience was rewarded with one of those performances that can be a treasured memory for a lifetime.
Dolce Suono's "Rouge, blanc et bleu' (2nd review)
That obscure but sublime French connection
The long and complex relationship between the U.S. and France is reflected in their music, but with distinct differences in style and approach. Dolce Suono contemplated the musical and historical connections in a concert of three French composers plus a new French-influenced work by Philadelphia composer Andrea Clearfield.
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A stroll to three galleries
Spring shows too good to miss
May is a perfect time for wandering around town, exploring all the goodies in galleries and enjoying the exhibitions too good to miss. Do it before the summer hiatus— when you might discover new, emerging talent but you won't find any “biggies” on exhibition.
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Four Mother's Weekend concerts (1st review)
Take Mom to a musicale
With masterpieces by Bach, Beethoven and Debussy, and a historical range that covered 1496 to 2009, these four Mother's Weekend concerts should have satisfied any reasonably cultured mother's tastes.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Tango With Style' (2nd review)
A troupe at the top of its game
Not long ago the Pennsylvania Ballet was struggling. Today it's a model artistic institution. Credit artistic director Roy Kaiser, who brings a dancer's instincts, institutional memory and personal commitment to the job.
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Ayckbourn's "The Norman Conquests' on Broadway
The marathon as gimmick
Alan Ayckbourn's very British 1973 trilogy, The Norman Conquests, is still funny after all these years. But there's less to this eight-hour marathon (plus meal breaks) than meets the eye.
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Simon Rattle conducts Bruckner's Eighth
The temptations of Sir Simon
Is Sir Simon Rattle still the One Who Got Away? In the second of his recent concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the flamboyant conductor offered a spacious and compelling reading of Bruckner's sprawling Eighth Symphony that drew marvelous playing, especially from the strings.
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Roberto Bolaño's '2666'
A Tolstoy for our century
Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 ranges across time and space to present a stately, soaring series of tales that plumb the human heart in all its grandeur and darkness. It's a lesson for this new and aching century.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Tango With Style' (1st review)
Tango clichés (and how to avoid them)
The Pennsylvania Ballet's penultimate performance of the season was a pleasing mixture of one of the company's repertory works, Robert Weiss's Octet for Strings; Keep, a world premiere by its resident choreographer, Matthew Neenan; and Hans van Manen's Five Tangos, a company premiere of a work that's achieved international status. The corps was in good form, though the live musical accompaniment was often ragged in tone.
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Nagle Jackson's "White Room' at Hedgerow
The wages of materialism: So what else is new?
What happens when a materialistic couple loses all their possessions? It's an intriguing premise, but Nagle Jackson's The White Room offers little dramatic insight aside from reminding us that, yes indeed, materialism is unhealthy.
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